Gerard Meijssen, 11/06/2015 12:24:
The italians have categories for people who died in a particular place.. Given that it is in Italian, Italian places get a lot of attention :)
In detail: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Amministrazioni/Comuni_italiani in 2005 created articles for all Italian municipalities and https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie since 2006 handles structured biographical data in {{bio}}, both thanks to bots by User:Gac.
{{bio}} ensures all sorts of links to places and almost every municipality in Italy has had at least one famous person, so you're probably right in linking the two. I don't know how many translations on other wikis were bot-created; but probably not more than for the famous French municipalities? ;)
Nemo